{"id":477,"date":"2025-02-12T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:31:56","slug":"deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest-i-am-the-nature-celebrates-indigenous-cultural-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest-i-am-the-nature-celebrates-indigenous-cultural-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, \u2018I Am the Nature\u2019 Celebrates Indigenous Cultural Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/i-am-nature-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, &#8216;I Am the Nature&#8217; Celebrates Indigenous Cultural Philosophy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Taliesin Black-Brown and narrated by Ramiro Vargas Chump\u00ed Washikiat, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1051873531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Am the Nature<\/a>&#8221; poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes of the Indigenous <a href=\"https:\/\/pachamama.org\/achuar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Achuar<\/a> people. The short documentary honors the philosophy of a culture whose ancestral lands extend across the modern borders of Ecuador and Peru, deep in the Amazon rainforest. Today, Achuar still living in the rainforest continue to practice and preserve ancestral ways of life.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 20th century, the government granted oil concessions that allowed industry to systematically move closer to the Achuar homeland. Further expansion and development in the region increased dramatically in the 1960s, initiating contact between the Achuar and the Western world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Washikiat chronicles a vision he had as a boy, which foretold he would travel to the U.S. to learn English. In his journey, he observed incredible cultural and societal contrasts, such as individualism in place of collectivity, and yet his experiences away from the jungle instilled an ever deeper understanding that we are all children of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Am the Nature&#8221; introduces us to a way of life inextricably entwined with the surrounding environment, simultaneously reliant on and in harmony with nature. &#8220;We peacefully live in a simple way,&#8221; Washikiat says. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we would like to share to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The short film was an official selection in the 2024 DOC NYC documentary film festival and the 2024 Banff Center Mountain Film Festival, among others. See it on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1051873531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/i-am-nature-2-960x624-1.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from the short documentary film &#039;I Am the Nature&#039; featuring an orange-and-black butterfly on a flower with subtitle text that reads &quot;I am the nature&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-450225\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"766\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/i-am-nature-1.gif\" alt=\"a gif from the short documentary film &#039;I Am the Nature&#039; featuring an Indigenous Achuar man paddling a canoe in a river, with subtitle text reading &quot;The Achuar people really love the wy of living in this part of the world.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-450222\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/i-am-nature-1-960x624-1.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from the short documentary film &#039;I Am the Nature&#039; featuring a small rainforest primate being fed milk from a spoon\" class=\"wp-image-450223\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/ebooks-a-telecharger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/i-am-nature-2.gif\" alt=\"a gif from the short documentary film &#039;I Am the Nature&#039; featuring sunny shots of plants and trees in the rainforest with the subtitle text reading &quot;We have to ask the spirit of the forest to help them, the let them understand.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-450224\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? 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